Bumblebees Are Teaching Smart Cars How To Drive
by The Daily Eye Team November 16 2015, 4:28 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 18 secsA newly-awarded research grant from the National Science Foundation is devoting $300,000 to a project to study the ways that bumblebees navigate, and to apply that information to help cars keep safe for people. The project, headed by researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, is examining the feasibility of “bumblebee-based connected vehicles.”